recent magazine articles Image: Irene Pérez for Quanta Magazine QUANTA / MACHINE learningHow Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data?By apparently overtraining them, researchers have seen neural networks discover novel solutions to problems. Image: Myriam Wares for Quanta Magazine QUANTA / MACHINE LEARNINGNew Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand TextFar from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re processing.